Queensland not so popular?

Mike Harding · Guru

Queensland not so popular?

Radar · Guru

Mike Harding wrote:
The comments are more interesting than the article:
Article in The Age about Qld seeking tourists

Hi Mike, read a good hand full of the comments, yes interesting.

My personal opinion is the Queensland Premier did for the most the right thing keeping the border crossing under control while the state managed the convic19 pandemic, yes there were a few questionable things that happen.

Staying safe.

outlaw40 · Guru

Have you tried to book a caravan site in qld lately , dont think we will miss the ones that are so self centred they think the border closures were a personal attack . there money isn't the only money out there .

Rob Driver · Guru

Ah, the media reporting at its best.

We have friends who manage a large caravan park in NQ and apart from the seven weeks when the state was in full lock down the occupancy in their park has been up by approx 45%
For example the month of October last year had a 26% occupancy after all the southerners went home. This October showed a 76% occupancy. A lot of these clients were Queenslanders who in previous years didnt travel because the parks were full of southerners. My friends report a steady flow of people visiting the park right throughout the year, with the peak winter period them still being booked out most weeks.
My friends comment on the situation was that it will be interesting to see what happens in 2021 when southerners will want their spots back and those spots may well be occupied by others who have discovered these parks during the interstate travel ban.

It may be interesting.

Regards

Angie

Cupie · Guru

Yep, we are amongst the 'locals' who traditionally moan about the lack of good sites at Qld CPs because of the long stay southeners who book out sites from year to year, often for months at a time.

If it's not the mexicans its the school kids. Always something to winge about, hey? LOL

At least, their money keeps the CPs & local businesses going, so that's got to be a good thing & we just fit in where there's an opportunity.

Possum3 · Guru

Until Qld underwrites all airfares, travel costs, accommodation bookings and guarantees FULL refunds - I suggest we just boycott.
I am in agreement with most of those that commented in the article, I believe the Qld Premier selfishly treated other Australians abominably, (just not Australian way).

Cupie · Guru

Possum3 wrote:
Until Qld underwrites all airfares, travel costs, accommodation bookings and guarantees FULL refunds - I suggest we just boycott.
I am in agreement with most of those that commented in the article, I believe the Qld Premier selfishly treated other Australians abominably, (just not Australian way).

Prepost edit .. (removed an offensive word)

Perhaps you are more in agreement with the way Trump handled the issue in the USA.

Boycott if you wish. Some visitors are more desirable than others.

Thanks for the post. It gave me a good morning laugh.

PS. I note that it was only recently that NSW removed the Vic border restrictions. Didn't hear much about that did we.

BTW .. The State election result (& a succession of polls) demonstrated that the Qld Premier has the support of the vast majority of Queenslanders.

travellinglew · Member

Makes me laugh. Almost every person in Australia is happy that we have locked down our international borders to keep Covid out but we have a heap of people who are winging because states have locked their borders to keep covid out. We would have ended up like the US if we kept everything open. Take a look at what happens in the US over the next 3 weeks. Lots of travel for their holiday will most likely result in a big increase in cases.

travelyounger · Guru

Mike Harding wrote:
The comments are more interesting than the article:
Article in The Age about Qld seeking tourists

I personally think that qld is more of a winter place as it can get quite hot up there in summer so bad luck AP maybe youve missed the boat Ill stay in the premier state for now but maybe later thank you.

cheers

Tony LEE · Guru

Who plays tourist in Queensland in the middle of summer. Just as nobody goes to Morocco or Mexico in the Northern summer - far too hot

Tony LEE · Guru

Comments are similar to those made by grey nomads about NW WA when they suddenly wanted us again when the minining boom fell in a bit of a heap.

outlaw40 · Guru

Wait till the southern winter and see how many are still bleating about never going to qld again . Will be the same old sea of nsw and vic number plates .

travelyounger · Guru

Tony LEE wrote:
Comments are similar to those made by grey nomads about NW WA when they suddenly wanted us again when the minining boom fell in a bit of a heap.

I agree their is still a lot of grey nomads with long memories on towns or places that want to treat you like $&/? and cry broke when things go bad not mentioning any names port headland oops

Izabarack · Guru

bentaxlebabe wrote:
A lot of these clients were Queenslanders who in previous years didnt travel because the parks were full of southerners.

Yes, so nice to visit places NOT infested with self-entitled out-of-staters. I have not been able to get into one place that was a favourite before the southern invaders flocked in and stayed for months on end. Not to disrespect all visitors, it is that a couple of bad eggs are all that are needed to spoil it for the all. Wuruma Dam is a case in point.

Iza

Cupie · Guru

Buggar .. I expected a stream of invective after my last post.

Just have to agree with Iza and those who correctly point out that Qld is a Winter tourist place .. for southerners, that is.

Actually I thought that it was a bit silly for the Qld Tourist Marketers to advertise at this time, with the current victimisation (why is every picking on me - poor buggar me) attitude of the southern right wing loonies and the fact that summer is not the best Qld Tourist season.

Perhaps that will bring out some ire.

Possum3 · Guru

Cupie, You will note that I requested AP to guarantee to refund any and all booking and prepaid accommodation fees if cancellations occur, some of us cant afford to be stung again to the tune of thousands of dollars for flights and hotel booking cancelled again.

Whenarewethere · Guru

Queensland beautiful one day, perfect next winter!

-- Edited by Whenarewethere on Monday 30th of November 2020 02:08:27 PM

Cupie · Guru

Possum3 wrote:
Cupie, You will note that I requested AP to guarantee to refund any and all booking and prepaid accommodation fees if cancellations occur, some of us cant afford to be stung again to the tune of thousands of dollars for flights and hotel booking cancelled again.

Ha Ha Not going to happen. Perhaps that Irish chap can help, now that he has sacked all his ground staff, or at least 2000 of them.

Tony LEE · Guru

"Wait till the southern winter and see how many are still bleating about never going to qld again . Will be the same old sea of nsw and vic number plates"

Entirely different situation. What we are amused about is the Queensland tourist industry so up themselves as to practically demand we southerners expose ourselves to intolerable heat, rain, and lethal jellyfish just because they say we should.

Cairns above 30 every day for the next week, above 20 every night, extreme UV index and high humidity.

I'd post conditions where I am but it's a nice place and I don't want a million frazzled Queensland ears racing south to get hete

-- Edited by Tony LEE on Monday 30th of November 2020 03:21:43 PM

outlaw40 · Guru

Tony LEE
that's just what i said..... hypocrites , Never going to give nasty qld any of our money ...... till our little tootsies are getting cold in the southern climes

if that's not 2 faced i dont know what is .

mixo · Senior Member

Wrong time to be up at QLD.
SA get my Xmas holiday money or southern NSW.
Next winter I'm off to N.T QLD and WA can go forth and multiply with their attitudes.

Love QLD and will come back in a few years when they have calmed down and don't think they are all about to die.
WA I want to visit as well, but I think I will do N.T and Spend my money there first and spend less time in WA.

I would hate to have grandkids and family in general in QLD/WA..how uncaring are these 2 states, no compassion at all.

What happened to we are all Australian...yeah right.. We are in it for ourselves.

shakes head...

mixo

Teo · Senior Member

Lets not forget that not all tourists to Qld. (Or anywhere in Oz) are Nomads. A lot of families only get holidays during Dec: & Jan. Plenty of holiday spots will be popular in the next couple of months.
Seems like a few grumpy southerners here, but Qld. & Northern NSW will full again from around April next year. Hope the few idiots who want to break isolation rules dont ruin things for everyone & any plans for travel you are making workout.

dabbler · Guru

I drove Gold Coast to Rocky today, just me and the Hilux. Very few vans on the road and only Calliope River had remotely large numbers in camp. Some free camps had one or two campers. Compared to Oct (my last trip) the highway was deserted above Gympie. 36 in Rocky, probably 37 tomorrow (Tues) it's warming up. West is mid 40s too. I know there are heat wave conditions around but it's a safe bet people are going home for Christmas and summer.

dieseltojo · Senior Member

I have many friends in Qld and couldn't visit them. I haven't told any of them they are any sort of idiot.

I mean if every state can do what they want, we have to live with it. I don't get the blatant animosity really. But the truth is; any one can say what they want, and you know what?

I don't even have the right to get upset. I can do nothing to any one.

That folks is democracy. So what is this conversation for.... I know make a list of the members for you point of view, and those you can enjoy hating? After all they are not as smart as you, right?

I see some have indicated that when the dust settles and come June 1st 2021, We will go and visit friends again and it will not matter a damn what happened over the Pandemic controls.

I don't vote Labour but being a Victorian, it was enough to see the results of a few major errors. The resultant hard work of our premier was wonderful. Qld did their best; I cant fault their efforts.

Not every one you appoint will know how to perform and that is hard to control.

But honestly we missed the boat to come up this year. smile A happy Xmas to you all.

-- Edited by dieseltojo on Tuesday 1st of December 2020 02:16:53 PM

Whenarewethere · Guru

If Gladys didn't wave everyone off a boat & interstate at lightning speed there would have a lot less problems to start with.

Radar · Guru

dieseltojo wrote:
I have many friends in Qld and couldn't visit them. I haven't told any of them they are any sort of idiot.

I mean if every state can do what they want, we have to live with it. I don't get the blatant animosity really. But the truth is; any one can say what they want, and you know what?

I don't even have the right to get upset. I can do nothing to any one.

That folks is democracy. So what is this conversation for.... I know make a list of the members for you point of view, and those you can enjoy hating? After all they are not as smart as you, right?

I see some have indicated that when the dust settles and come June 1st 2021, We will go and visit friends again and it will not matter a damn what happened over the Pandemic controls.

I don't vote Labour but being a Victorian, it was enough to see the results of a few major errors. The resultant hard work of our premier was wonderful. Qld did their best; I cant fault their efforts.

Not every one you appoint will know how to perform and that is hard to control.

But honestly we missed the boat to come up this year. A happy Xmas to you all.

Thank you, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your Family.

Cuppa · Guru

travelyounger wrote:
Tony LEE wrote:
Comments are similar to those made by grey nomads about NW WA when they suddenly wanted us again when the minining boom fell in a bit of a heap.
I agree their is still a lot of grey nomads with long memories on towns or places that want to treat you like $&/? and cry broke when things go bad not mentioning any names port headland oops

Port Hedland immediately came to mind before I resched the 2nd quote above! Never sure whether to be angered or amused when I read about these sort of places being spoken of as glowing examples of RV friendliness by RV'ers who never had experience of them when they were far from friendly, where the desperate dollar driven mindset suddenly made the unwelcome welcome.

To the whingers about closed borders with their pointing fingers, we should be applauding our State leaders for maintaining the State border restrictions to protect Australians when constantly under fire from the Fedreral gov't, the Murdoch press, the right wing idealists ,the selfish but frustrated profiteers & the Wacko conspiracy theorists. (ie. all the snivelling finger pointers). Our state leaders stood strong to keep us strong & provided a model much of the world look up to. They understood that if Covid was able to spread as it has been allowed to in many parts of the world to, aiming 'protect the economy' without protecting the people , that we would all be in a far worse position than we now find ourselves in. Instead of carping, give praise where praise is due!

-- Edited by Cuppa on Wednesday 2nd of December 2020 02:05:56 PM

Nevd · Senior Member

Cuppa, I agree completely. Just imagine no restrictions. Where would Australia be right no? And how many people commenting on this forum wouldn't actually be here? At least after 9 months of some pain, we are (mostly) free to do what we want again.